something sort of exciting...

A real post about our trip to long beach will have to wait, but I wanted to post really quickly to tell you about something exciting I haven't told anyone but my sister!

Over Christmas break, I applied for a job...in Renton...for a worship leader.  It is only part time, but it actually makes about 10-15k more a year than we make right now with Jeremy working full time and at three different jobs.  It was kind of random how we found it.  Jeremy was looking on the Church of God website where churches post jobs for pastors to submit resumes to, and this one popped up.  Anyway, I was absolutely convinced that if I applied for it I wouldn't get it, but Jeremy encouraged me to try anyway.  I quickly put together a resume, labored over a "philosophy of worship" and then we also recorded me playing four different worship songs (they requested a video of me leading worship, but I didn't have one) on my phone.  I emailed it all off over the weekend after Christmas and heard back on Monday.  I thought for sure it was going to be a courtesy rejection email...no, an apology for not getting back to me sooner and that I should expect to hear back after they look over everything that week.

So today, I got a second email.  Asking for a sort of informal interview on Thursday.  This will be exciting to hear more about the church and if this position is something that will work for our family.  There are a lot of reasons why timing-wise this would work out beautifully right now.  1.) I don't really HAVE to teach at the preschool anymore. I mean, I never really did, but now that Savanna left, its only Shea and his cousin John, and neither pay.  I am already going down to two days a week, and I'm really only still doing it for Shea's sake.  2.)  Right now, Jeremy's mom watches Shea and Hailey during preschool most of the week.  But in March, Hanna is having a second baby, and her first is only 15 months right now.  He was a hard baby because he got very sick and has a lot of allergies.  They have no idea if their next baby will have the same issues or not, but I'm thinking that my mother-in-law will need to be more available to help her, and if we are gone, it might be a really good thing.  3.)  Jeremy's work is VERY slow right now and although we don't worry and know God will take care of us if we were to remain here, at least his employer will have lots of time to find a replacement for him.

Also?  The church is in Fairwood, which is the place we have loved living the most.  We never intended to end up in or stay in Indianola for long.  We love it here, but we have always known we will move on from here eventually.

I know, it isn't for sure yet.  It might not be the right time (even if it could be a "good" time) or the right place.  But I am very excited about the possibility, because I know that if I actually got hired to do this, it would be ALL God and I would be challenged and grow so much.  There are a lot of other exciting possibilities that could happen if this were to happen.  Anyway, I just wanted to share with you girls about it and ask for your prayers of wisdom on whether this church is a good fit for us and so on.  We already know what its like to be staff in a church that is NOT the right fit, so I know we will be very careful about moving our family for a job like this.

Time for me to go get my kiddos ready for bed!